pharisaical
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World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
This scandalized the pharisaical men of the time, who looked askance at all learned women and resented particularly the preëminence given to Paula and her accomplished daughter.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
Against pharisaical religion it uses effective satire,—which was intensified in its successor, Dred,—but the Christianity of faith and life is its animating spirit.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
We are not alone, therefore, in this pharisaical spirit, which exists, in some mode or other, wherever man himself is to be found.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
Yet it is scarcely to be supposed that in everyday Jewish life the pharisaical maxims quoted above were adhered to with any great degree of strictness.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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